MIAMI (AP) — In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime.
They swapped lurid images of their latest sexual conquests. And at one point they even joked about “forcible anal rape.” Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content.
Please enable it in your browser settings. FILE - Jose Irizarry, a once-standout DEA agent sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money with a Colombian cartel, speaks during an interview the night before going to a federal detention center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.
Irizarry told federal authorities in 2020 that he had direct knowledge of 15 DEA agents soliciting prostitutes. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File) This October 2014 photo obtained by The Associated Press shows then-U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration Agents Jose Irizarry and George Zoumberos in a rooftop pool at a luxury hotel in Cartagena, Colombia, during a DEA assignment for "Operation White Wash." Irizarry long considered Zoumberos a brother but in his interviews with investigators accused his former partner of a list of crimes. (AP Photo) Trending Stories Nanticoke man charged with manslaughter in ATV crash Former LCCF employee gets jail for smuggling drugs to inmate Drug death suspect charged with possession of more drugs FedEx driver robbed in Wilkes-Barre DNC thanks Biden with billboards in Scranton, Wilmington FILE - This 2017 photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Jose Irizarry in Cartagena, Colombia.
Irizarry, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent serving a 12-year federal prison term for laundering money for the very Colombian drug cartels he was sworn to police, has maintained to AP in recent interviews that he was not a rogue agent and accountability is long overdue for the many others who joined him in a wild ride that mocked the DEA’s mission.
(AP Photo/File) This combination of 2012-2017 photos obtained from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shows U.
S. dollars, Colombian pesos, euros and Canadian dollars involved in the DEA's shadowy international money laundering investigations. An Associated Press investigation raises questions about the efficacy of this little-known law enforcement tool, which has been criticized for facilitating the flow of millions of dollars in cartel funds.
(DEA via AP).
